Sustainable Human has once again made an amazing video from the text of one of my articles, narrated by myself, and I’m thrilled with how it’s turned out. It’s really beautiful and I encourage you to watch and share.

Great video. Great politics. One quibble. When the apparent businessman brings the homeless person sleeping on the street at 3:03 a sandwich it is obviously meat. Better that than neglected indifference. Still, animal agriculture is a very serious problem.

Ishkabibble/December 15, 2018

p.brooksmcginnis/December 15, 2018

Nice Video. Habits and a place in society are powerful forces.

We need to take the money creation (printed funny money) and piles of inherited wealth away from these inhumane super rich. Need to toss capitalism in the trash heap, along with slavery and divine right and feudalism.

inforebelscum/December 16, 2018

inforebelscum/December 15, 2018

OK, you drop out. Now what? How do you support yourself and your family? What is your next move?

Again, lots of emotionalism but bereft of any real solutions. I will ask again, what exactly is the proposed replacement system? *Caitlin has admitted to having communist sympathies so is the replacement going to be communism? No thanks and with afterburners!

I’m afraid to say that the replacement system for what we now have is catastrophe. A miracle is always possible. But I am not counting on it. I did what Caitlin is talking about 30 years ago. I am ready for the worst but striving for the best. I live very simply and try to be 100% honest. I don’t have the same level of comfort as most people but I learned to be content with that knowing that the way I live is in harmony (more or less) (I am not a saint) with the world. One thing I learned to accept is that you can’t change other people. You can only do what you feel is right. But catastrophe or not we will have to learn to live at a lower level of comfort. The earth can’t sustain the present level. Simple!

inforebelscum/December 19, 2018

John, “One thing I learned to accept is that you can’t change other people.”

Exactly. This is probably one of the most important lessons I learned a long time ago too. It is a cornerstone of understanding and wisdom IMHO.

“…we will have to learn to live at a lower level of comfort. The earth can’t sustain the present level.”

Not being snarky but says who? This is the propaganda the elite want you to believe. Yes there are problems – serious ones – but I argue that the best way to solve them is through more individual freedom not larger, more powerful governments.

Free Human/December 29, 2018

Yes – my thoughts exactly. Great video, but how practical is it to live outside the matrix? Certainly Communism is not the answer – it’s the antithesis to living free. The older I get the more anarchistic (?) I get.

inforebelscum/December 15, 2018

DeQuincy/December 16, 2018

Go outside and look for a tree that is not regarded by a suburbanite as a garden accessory to be removed when inconvenient, or by a farmer as a hindrance to broadacre cropping. Look at the destruction of forest and wildlife and the loss of 60% of the insects on the planet in the last 50 years. Look at the science, or stand in a greenhouse if you can’t understand it. What plants do you anticipate will use the CO2? If you are as young as your photo suggests (and you are not a disinfo agent) you would not remember the mild summers, the butterflies, the wild places. The climate has / is changing. Perhaps you are right and CO2 is a symptom and not a cause of the destruction wrought by the industrial treadmill, but if we don’t stop producing it, the planet will stop producing us.

Davis Mackenzie/January 10, 2019

“It is the left’s position that humans are bad for the planet anyways so what is the problem with humans going extinct from that POV?” Ask a hunter why hunting deer helps to save the deer population from being wiped out. The answer should be obvious. Humans are not necessarily bad for the planet. But any species left to reproduce, unchecked, while pillaging and polluting the land, water, and air is unsustainable. We (as a species) have not been able to show adequate restraint in the face of such obvious fact. It is fact that what comes out of every tail pipe of every gas powered car is toxic to breathe. It is also a fact that there are literally millions upon millions of these cars that are made to carry multiple people at once, being used to transport just one single occupant at a time. Then there is industry and the legal pollution (not to mention all the illegal pollution) that we commit every single day. And the waste that we leave behind……. The evidence of the inability of the natural environment to balance itself in spite of our hourly attempts to destabilize it is insurmountable to most critically thinking, ethical individuals. Advocacy for change should be considered the highest of ethical decisions in public policy today.

inforebelscum/January 11, 2019

Davis, “Ask a hunter why hunting deer helps to save the deer population from being wiped out.”

Am a little confused at your point here. Are you suggesting that unlike lefties you think humans are worth saving but they do need to be hunted every now and then to keep the population down?! OK, who gets to be the hunters and who has to be the hunted? Who gets to decide?

What your argument fails to recognize though is that transportation and logistics are integral to modern society. While those cars and trucks are spitting out some pollution they are also responsible for bringing food from the farms to the world. Same with other goods and services. How do you propose to replace this logistics system? What specific technology will do the same job as the IC engine has done to improve the lives of billions of people?

Change to what exactly?! Changing from something not so good to something worse just so people can feel good about the change is not an argument to rally behind.

Andy Whiteman/December 15, 2018

Stephen Sadd/December 14, 2018

A very big thank you for this vital & truthful message, what shame our governments don’t share the same philosophy, instead of the rehearsed deceit that lives in our Parliament, and the destruction allowed of our environment by the Corporate Giants, for material gain of the Cabal, controlled by The Atlantic Council, Plutocrats. The governments of the West ARE in the process of selling our Sovereignty, to these very same Plutocrats! I urge people who read this, to please listen to my link provided above, a collapse of our Financial System is near, a BAIL-IN has been planed to STEAL your deposits!

prolenomore/December 14, 2018

John Gaylord/December 14, 2018

I was once told by a client on an contract job who thought I was spending too much time, that ‘time is money’ — but I thought rather that ‘time is love’ because I was dedicated to serving the client’s best interest (even though they thought their main interest was to make money). The older I get, the more I observe that, the richer people become, the more likely they become ever more corrupt.

YouR Beautiful/December 14, 2018

I loved it! I’m already an admirer of Caitlin’s writing voice, so having you audible with your thoughts throughout the visual presentation is the point of the effort. The poignant video clips provided viewers illustrate some complex ideas for people to take away for future ingestion and additional consideration. The beauty of these projects sprouting out, is that they are readily available for anyone to see online, and they remain so for years after the initial production efforts are done. They continue to have powerful effects upon inquisitive minds, just as Caitlin Johnstone’s writings have.

Thanks for the video, great content and challenges to continuing in the rat race. But as is too often the case, the background music is too loud and makes it difficult to understand the dialogue. Please do a remix.

My hearing is poor even for my 81 years, so I could only pick up a few snatches of what is being said. (Yes, I should get a hearing aid made by a good corporation.) Maybe it’s just me but.I tend to agree that the background music is too loud, and perhaps the quality of the audio for the voice could also be improved..

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"NewsGuard is led by some of the most virulently pro-imperialist individuals in America and its agenda to shore up narrative control for the ruling power establishment is clear, writes Caitlin Johnstone."

NewsGuard is led by some of the most virulently pro-imperialist individuals in America and its agenda to shore up narrative control for the ruling power establishment is clear, writes Caitlin Johnstone. By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com The frenzied, hysterical Russia narrative being prom ... See more

Excerpt from "Fight The Establishment’s Narratives By Getting Clear On Your Own":

Anti-establishment movements are a mess. Whether they’re left-wing or right-wing, whether they’re statist or anarchist, whether they’re organized or decentralized, whether they place emphasis on official or unofficial narratives, any circle of people who are interested in opposing the status quo on a deep, meaningful level almost invariably find themselves significantly bogged down by confusion, paranoia, infighting, and misdirected use of energy.

Every day, for example, I get people in my inbox and social media notifications telling me I shouldn’t quote or share anything from this or that lefty journalist or anti-establishment figure because they’ve said something “problematic” at some point or have some kind of association with some aspect of the establishment. Rather than simply using narrative-disrupting tools wherever they come from to fight the establishment narrative control machine, I’m encouraged to isolate myself to the extremely narrow spectrum of voices which agree with my exact worldview perfectly. This kind of paranoid, self-cannibalizing mentality is rife throughout most anti-establishment circles.

This happens for a number of reasons, including the fact that the ruling power establishment will infiltrate dissident movements that it perceives as a threat with the intent of sowing confusion and division. But the underlying reason anti-establishment circles so often find themselves getting crushed by their own weight is ultimately because life itself is confusing and difficult to understand.

Hardly anyone holds a lucid and steady awareness of just how much of society is comprised of mental narrative. Most people live their lives under the unquestioned assumption that when they are moving around in the world, speaking, acting, forming opinions, having ideas etc, they are interacting with something that resembles objective reality. The truth of the matter is that most of the things which draw people’s attention in their day-to-day experience, whether it’s names, titles, news stories, political parties, economics, history, philosophy, religion or what have you, consist entirely of mental noises firing off inside human skulls.

Excerpt from "Fight The Establishment’s Narratives By Getting Clear On Your Own":

You might think it’s a big jump to go from chatting about the sociopolitical dynamics within dissident movements to making vaguely Buddhist-sounding observations about human thought, but it’s really not. The reason our species is in a mess right now, and thus the reason movements exist which seek to change the status quo, is because so much of life is dictated entirely by made-up mental narratives which can be easily controlled by the powerful, and hardly anyone fully grasps this. If they did, the revolution against the establishment would very smoothly and quickly succeed.

Scientific research has found that astronauts suffer problems with coordination, perception and cognition when they are unable to determine which way is up in space. There is no “up” or “down” when you’re outside the gravitational pull that our bodies are adapted to, so its absence sends our whole system out of whack. Navigating a society that is made of mental narrative is very much the same; if you don’t know which way’s up, you’ll get lost and confused. Before you can see the narrative matrix clearly, you might be aware that some narratives serve power and swat at them while you’re spinning through space, but you won’t have any solid ground on which to orient yourself for the purpose of forming a clear path forward toward a healthy and harmonious world.

Your first and foremost task as a revolutionary, therefore, is to find solid ground on which to plant your feet while operating within a swirling sea of narratives and counter-narratives. Without this you’ll find yourself expending energy on ineffectual agendas, chasing shadows, attacking friends and advancing the interests of the enemy as you stumble around trying to fight a threat you can’t even see clearly. You’ve got to figure out for yourself which way’s up.